ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,277, issued on July 14, was assigned to SHENZHEN SHOKZ Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).
"Earphones" was invented by Lei Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Peigeng Tong (Shenzhen, China), Guolin Xie (Shenzhen, China), Yongjian Li (Shenzhen, China), Jiang Xu (Shenzhen, China), Tao Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Duoduo Wu (Shenzhen, China), Ao Ji (Shenzhen, China) and Xin Qi (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an earphone including a sound production component and an ear hook which is configured to place the sound production component at a position near an ear canal but not blocking the ear canal. The sound product...